IMAGINE LIBRARIES…

THE CULTURE OF THE BOOK

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE BOOK

The Library of Congress. Washington D.C.

December 6-7, 2012

National Library perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of the book

Glòria Pérez-Salmerón

Director of the National Library of Spain

Beyond a future that is already here

A change of perspective

From the origins to the XXI

Century

Libraries are institutions with a long history

Different libraries for

different users

Public libraries Specialized libraries

National libraries

All that is changing:

From paper

…to the screen

New players like Google

Books or Wikipedia

The National Library of Spain

Its catalogue is

increasingly ubiquitous

� The European Library, TEL

� Online Computer Libraries Center, OCLC

� Manuscripts in REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas

Universitarias)

� Authorities in VIAF (Virtual International

Authorities File)

Core functions

Digital legal deposit and Web Archive� National repository project� In collaboration with Red.es (ITC Cº infrastructure) and

the Spanish Autonomous Governments , CCAA

� Web Archive� 3 mass harvesting + 3 complementary mass harvesting

� 2 selective harvesting

� 85 TB

� 1,700 + millions of URLs

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

� Public-private partnership with Telefónica:

� Digitization of 30,000 pages/day

� Nowadays there are around 100,000 titles available

in Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, including 1,066 titles

of serials collection in Hemeroteca Digital

� Around 23,000,000 pages

International digital cooperation

� The European Library /Europeana

� World Digital Library

� OCLC, participation in WorldCat and CONTENTdm (work in progress)

� Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)

The Biblioteca Digital del

Patrimonio Iberoamericano

(BDPI)

BDPI: A success story

� It was born in October 2012 under the

auspices of the Association of Ibero-American

National Libraries, ABINIA

� Access to digitized works

� Dublin Core metadata

Participating libraries BDPI

� National Library of Brazil

� National Library of Chile

� National Library of Colombia

� National Library of Panama

� National Library of Portugal

� National Library of Spain

157.207 titles

The Library disseminates its

contents

• Facebook: 126,000 + followers

• Twitter followers :

• Library 12,700 +

• Museum 2,800 +

• Director 1,100 +

• Youtube: 138 videos and + 440,000 reproductions

• Flickr: 233,425 visits in 2012

• Wikipedia: improvement of the BNE contents

• Slideshare: 90 presentations

• RSS: blog, news, events and exhibitions

Interactive online books

Universal access to our masterpieces with rich

added contextual value:

� Original and transliterated text

� Music, maps, games, quizzes, videos, 3D

models, ephemera, engraves, drawings

� Quijote Interactivo , October 2010 (2,300,000

consultations in 2011)

� Leonardo Interactivo, October 2012

Leonardo Interactivo

Quijote interactivo

Austerity’s strategies

� Society is requiring more and better services

from libraries

� Monitor actions to achieve our goals with

limited resources

� The key lies in cooperation (Public-private

partnerships, PPPs) and in an exquisite

management of resources

� Do more with less!

Libraries recover their old roles

in a society that needs to turn

information into knowledge

The future of the book

From

� The book as a physical container of information

to

� “The book as a … “

online multimedia contents

“The book as …”

� A BNE`s exhibition to show the beginning of

a new age also for the printed book

The printed book, a precious art object

Joan Miró, [et. al.]. Paroles peintes V, 1975 BNE INVENT/82623

The book as a hunter of moments

Ana de Matos. Cuento de Hadas. Barcelona: Raiña Lupa Eds., 2006 BNE INVENT/83065

The book as a visual poetry

Eduardo Escala. Libro Infinito. 1996 BNE ER/5825/5

The book as a delicacy

Maureen Lucía Booth. Mis dulces miércoles. Granada: Mararo Moreno Villalonga, 1999 BNE INVENT/79397

The book as a desire

Juan Carlos Mestre. La mujer abstracta. Velliza (Valladolid): El Gato Gris,1996 BNE ER/5854/5

The book as a wound

Luís Buñuel y José Hernández. Bacanal. Madrid: Grupo Quince,1975 BNE INVENT/51086

The book as

music

Vicente Huidobro. SALLEXIV. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,2001 BNE INVENT/82078

The book as a journey

Lucía García Corrales. Bacanal. Madrid: Lucía García Corrales, 2010 BNE INVENT/83871

The future of the book

FROM the book as a physical container of information

TO online multimedia contents

AND “The book as a … “

So …

� What must we change in order to accomplish

our mission?

� Is still our mission valid?

� How do we do it?

� Interesting and challenging times ahead

We have a very, very

interesting but challenging

time ahead of us!

� Web BNE: www.bne.es

� Catalog: http://catalogo.bne.es

� Biblioteca Digital Híspánica :http://bdh.bne.es

� Facebook BNE: www.facebook.com/bne

� Youtube BNE: www.youtube.com/bibliotecaBNE

� Flickr BNE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliotecabne

� SlideShare BNE: http://www.slideshare.net/bne

� Twitter BNE: https://twitter.com/#!/bne_biblioteca

� Twitter Museo: https://twitter.com/#!/BNE_museo

� Wikipedia BNE: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Nacional_de_Espa%C3%B1a

THANK YOU VERY MUCH